turn off adaptive resolution

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November 22, 2023
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Can anyone tell me how to completely turn off adaptive resolution? Now I have to do it every time for all comps. The thing is, it was off for all comps, but then (maybe, probably after the update to v24) it switched on for all comps for some random reason. As After Effects can apparently turn it on for all comps (without asking) I assume it can also be turned off for all comps, but I can't find that setting.
I'm working on VFX for a series and have dozens of comps and even more nested comps and every time I start working on a shot I forget its on (since for the past 20 years I never used adaptive resolution as it's extremely unuseful for VFX work) and am startled because the image starts jumping around while scrubbing, making me think the tracking is wrong or whatever, or I want to roto something only to see the resolution drop exactly as I need the accuracy to make the roto.
I know I can switch it off with the button underneath the composition panel (although that button is not present underneath the footage and layer panel, so while starting a roto, I first have to switch back to the composition panel to toggle the adaptive resolution button...) but I don't want to have to do this every time for all comps.
I'm sure you can appreciate that adaptive resolution is something that is very unhelpful for VFX work as it makes precision during interaction impossible, so please tell me there is a way to completely turn it off in a whole project...

Thank you!

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ThaumarAuthor

Inspiring

Please...? Someone? Anyone? Please show me how to 'turn off' adaptive resolution projectwide, for all comps. There must be a 'turn off' switch somewhere, it did turn on for all comps (by it self, without asking), if it can be turned on for all comps it must be posible turn it back off for all comps...

Adobe? Are you there?

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

Adaptive resolution has a setting in Preferences/Previews. There is also a switch in the Comp panel. It only affects the Comp Panel previews. AE remembers the last active comp setting when you create a new one. Unless you need Adaptive resolution turned on to improve performance when scrubbing, turn it off in the main comp, close all other comps in the timeline, then create a new one, and it will be turned off in all new comps you create.

It does not affect rendering. There is no global on/off switch. I almost always work with Comp Resolution set to Auto to speed up RAM previews, but it's been a while since any of my machines have required Adaptive Resolution to be turned on so I could easily scrub through the timeline.

ThaumarAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, ik know how to turn it off for new comps, the thing is it was off in all my comps, it's always off, because I mostly work on VFX and adaptive resolution is very much not helpful, it's the opposite of helpful when working on VFX. But then, all of a sudden, all comps have adaptive resolution set to on, all comps that previously had it set to off, which basically means there is a way to override this setting for all comps. And because I'm working on a tv series with over a 100 VFX per episode, all separate comps, most of them containing precomps and I was already weeks in production on these VFX, so most comps where already created, I now encounter the adaptive resolution set to on in hundreds of comps in multiple projects.
I don't know how it turned on by itself for all the comps, I haven't used adaptive resolution in over 25 years I'm using AE and up till a couple of weeks ago it was respecting my settings. But since it is now apparently able to turn it on for all comps in existing projects I have to assume there is a way to turn it back off.
I mean, it's 2023, adaptive resolution should be off by default, it's something you might turn on when a comp get to heavy. But having your resolution drop when you want to move a mask tangent while rotoscoping in the layer panel, that should not be to heavy, but instant in all situations on a modern computer, especially with the render checkbox set to off. It's just moving a line on screen without rendering the result, there is no reasonable situation where you would want or need adaptive resolution on, it defeats the purpose, it makes fine tuning a rotomask impossible, and to add insult to injury, there is to adaptive resolution switch in the layers panel!!! You first have to go back to the composition panel to switch the behavior of the layers panel!!! This makes no sense. If Adobe positions AE as an VFX compositing application, adaptive resolution should be something you can turn off globally. Or at least should not be able to be turned on globally in existing projects for no reason.
If this is to hard to fix, just make a extra option in the preview settings to select 1/1 mode, that should technically turn off adaptive resolution globally. Please, do something, I'm going mad every time having to encounter the image crapping up. For weeks now I am encountering this unwanted behavior, sometimes first thinking there is something else wrong (bouncy track, faulty footage, whatever) before realizing that, again, the adaptive resolution was switched to on. But it wasn't turned on by me. AE did it by itself. After the project was created. After the comps where created. Globally. All comps.
I'm just asking for the same thing, but this time, turn them all back off. Or give me the possibility to do it.

Shebbe

Community Expert

That sounds painful. I thought those settings were globally applied for all comp windows.

No idea if it works but perhaps opening an empty project and making one comp with it off, then import the entire project does the trick? Unless all is really baked/saved into the file. I wonder even if that's the case if this doesn't unneccesarily increase the .aep filesize for no reason.

Adobe if you read this, I fully agree that for compositors there should be an option to make the composition settings global.

This would sync the viewing resolution, playback, channel viewing etc across all comps just like a true composite software viewer. For OCIO this would also tremendously help keeping the same view transform throughout unless changed manually.

ThaumarAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Shebbe, thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately it didn't help for this specific 'problem'.

And yes, I agree, also for OCIO view setting it would be great to have global settings.
@adobe And I can add even more suggestions: a global setting for PAR correction for example, I had the same problem in a previous project where I had to switch the PAR setting for each comp, that's even more clicks per comp to change...
And while we are at it, I use a specific column order in my timeline. This usually sticks pretty good, new projects and comps inherit this order, except when I import a project with an other or default column order into a project, then all new comps have the default order until I change it and then create a new comp to make it stick again.
I mean, this is not a big deal, I don't import other projects in my projects that much, but it would be great that the preferred column order could be set globally with an option to force it on existing comp in the project.
I know, just get used to the default column order would be easiest, but as it turns out my alternate order serves a purpose for my workflow and I like to have certain columns visible at all times.
Anyway, I like that you can save a custom workspace, it would be great if a custom column layout can also be saved and set and specific view settings can be forced globally on all comps.

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